A question about jaw damage.

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Hope it's ok for me to ask a question.
Is it true that if a vet opens a guinea pigs jaw too wide during dental surgery that it wouldn't show on the x-ray if it's damaged?.
I saw someone on FB say this to someone and it got me thinking that how would exotic vet know that it wasn't damaged? If it doesn't show up on x-ray?.
Before my Guinea pig had the first dental surgery with normal vets, he was able to eat dandelions etc but after the surgery he could not eat at all & his nerves kept moving on his face.
I did question if they damaged his jaw but the exotic vet told me they didn't but maybe he doesn't want to bad mouth anyone. It's strange that he couldn't eat at all by himself after first surgery. What does everyone think? Even my family thought it was odd that he couldn't eat at all.
 
I wonder if they did the surgery correctly? Very few vets are good and piggy dentals, even exotic ones.
 
piggieminder said:
I wonder if they did the surgery correctly? Very few vets are good and piggy dentals, even exotic ones.
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The exotic vet said it showed a bad dental root on the x-ray, he showed us but at the time I was mostly focusing on the vet explaining rather than concentrating on the image and I'm not good at reading x-rays.
I'm suspicious that the first vet messed up because it's odd that he could eat dandelions before he had the surgery but after he couldn't eat at all. I feel like I've let him down.
 
Even if no damage is caused by dental treatment, I imagine that the discomfort from having the jaw held wide open must last quite a long time - i know how much my jaw aches after I've had dental work done.... And vets who hardly ever do piggy dentals probably don't know how far they can safely or comfortably move a pig's jaw.
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
Even if no damage is caused by dental treatment, I imagine that the discomfort from having the jaw held wide open must last quite a long time - i know how much my jaw aches after I've had dental work done.... And vets who hardly ever do piggy dentals probably don't know how far they can safely or comfortably move a pig's jaw.
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That's what I thought. I feel really terrible that this could have been prevented but at the time I didn't know what to do to help him as he obviously needed his teeth filing down
 
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